The purpose of this study was to get an insight into the experience of those who have turned their backs on crime after having served time in Icelandic prisons. Icelandic studies have primarily been based on those classified as serial offenders, and this is the first study based on those who have given up crime after serving time in prison. The experience and insight looked for in the reform of ex-convicts is mainly when the decision to give up crime was made and what led to it. As the results looked for were experience-based, qualitative research methods were used. The execution of the research started in June 2011 and ended in November of the same year and the participants were found through two snowball-samples. The main conclusions of this research are that common denominators are childhood enviroment, education and a history of substance abuse. In five of six cases the participants‘ experience of the imprisonment was positive. They all believed that their reform began when they took responsibility for their actions. They considered education the primary resource in prison. The five participants who considered themselves to have been reformed in prison used the opportunity to study while there. The conclusion of this study and the theory it leads to is that for convicts to reform through proffered resources while imprisoned, they must first and foremost accept culpability and responsibility for their own actions and for their life.